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  1. Tim035

    Exam Thoughts

    I took a stab and said it was nutritional, because in the question I highlighted that it said "non infectious diseases can be classified as one of three different types". So I kind of opened the question by saying, Lactose intolerance is an example of a nutritional non infectious disease.
  2. Tim035

    Exam Thoughts

    Haemoglobin umm I wrote: An iron compound found in RBC's responsible for transporting oxygen from the respiratory surface to the cells of the organism. The artifical inductio of mutations on Drosophilia is an experiment I actually briefly learnt about for the Mutagenic nature of radiation...
  3. Tim035

    Exam Thoughts

    The communication option was a joke, it was soo pathetically easy I wrote 24 pages (8 pages alone for the vision and auditory 8 marker). I learn't so many complex procedures and complexes to do with nerves, action potentials and receptors in other animals. I liked part B as it really did...
  4. Tim035

    my multiple choice answers

    5 is C 9 is D Rest are good. Probably best exam I could've ever hoped for
  5. Tim035

    mondays exam

    Its annoying in a sense, I KNOW their will be stuff tommorow I go hmmm going to have to take a bit of a stab in the dark with this quesiton. But its 4:30pm I've got 1 past trial paper left I could do, but looking through it all the questions seem preety generic and answerable just off the top...
  6. Tim035

    Say i dont get the UAI

    Hey your in almost the same boat as me, I studied my ass off all year and had the goal of doing biomedical engineering at UNSW. But then in both maths and pdhpe I really blew out due to exam stress. I'm worried aswell now because I was talking to my friends dad who's a uni lecturer at Sydney...
  7. Tim035

    EAS Scheme

    I got a letter about 2 months ago saying: UAC has received your educational access schemes (EAS) application listing the following disadvantage codes: -PO1A Disability or long term medical condition UAC has automatically classified you as eligible for this category of disadvantage...
  8. Tim035

    Biology Marathon 2006

    Mendel observed the inheritance of 7 characteristics in his experimentation with peas. Peas have a chromosome number 2N= 14. It could be assumed each of these alleles was carried on a seperate chromosome to others, explain why. If some alleles were linked on the one chromosome would it...
  9. Tim035

    Biology Marathon 2006

    Yes you Must know about homozygous and heterozygous but its not like its a difficult concept. Homozygous. Contains two of the sample allele in the genotype eg. (RR) Heterozygous. Contains both alternatives for the characteristic in the genotype eg. (Rr). I got a really quick questions: -...
  10. Tim035

    Biology Marathon 2006

    I'll take a quick break from trial papers to answer one question. Imbalance in microflora- Thrush caused by the fungus Candida Albicans is capable of becomming virulent in the mouth, respiratory tract and female genitalia. Fortunatly however, the numbers of this fungal are usually kept non...
  11. Tim035

    Biology Marathon 2006

    Fair enough :D I think trying to combine course outcomes with the other content to justify the need to know those 2 scientists would be preety cruel on behalf on the BOS. I think if they did ask a question they would need to give you some extract on the scientists & then they'd ask a question...
  12. Tim035

    Biology Marathon 2006

    Ummm I'm preety sure you'll find that question also had an extract involving an epidemiological study on smokers above it in which they concluded that smoking causes lung cancer. Without looking at the question I think the problem was they didn't have a control group of non smokers which they...
  13. Tim035

    Biology Marathon 2006

    K can you show me the SYLLABUS DOT POINT where it says discuss the work or something along the lines of that of those 2 scientists. I know the top of the syllabus page for the specific immune responce says something along the lines as "With Mcflarrenes discovery of the immune responce came a...
  14. Tim035

    Whats the difference between random segregation and independent assortment?

    Just out of interest, did you try opening your text book or typing define: independant assortment into google before posting here? Independant assortment: The principle that during meiosis the two copies of each gene are distributed to the germ cells independently of the distribution of other...
  15. Tim035

    Biology Marathon 2006

    lol don't worry I thinnnnkkk if I remember correctly those two scientists are part of the 'genetics the code broken' option or something like that. Keep it just to the core for this thread buddy, if u need help with options please post in the appropriate forum. It'd be like me asking you...
  16. Tim035

    How can you tell?

    Xylem vessels are usually larger and with thicker cell walls. Phloem vessels are smaller and more numerous. In a longitudinal section phloem will have visible companion cells and a sieve plate or sieve element. Xylem will have tracheids, pits and opened ends.
  17. Tim035

    Biology Marathon 2006

    Jeez... autosomal, sex linked, dominant and reccessive diseases I'd like to see that be asked in the HSC. Well for sex linked theres red green colour blindness which is reccessive to normal colour vision and is carried on the x chromosome. So unless the father is colour blind and the mother...
  18. Tim035

    Biology Marathon 2006

    Lol no problems guys, cept keep it hush I can't have all the state knowing as much as I do Lol jks. My tutor says that its unlikely they'd ask a big question on social/political influences on evolution because its such a touchy subject even today. More likely they'd ask something indirectly...
  19. Tim035

    Biology Marathon 2006

    There were three main philosophies current during the 18th and 19th century that delayed the widespread acceptance of evolution. These were nature theology, literal creationism essentialism. Natural theology had its goal in demonstrating God’s power through a study of the biological world...
  20. Tim035

    Biology Marathon 2006

    Your sure? according to my notes, red eyes was inherited in an autosomal fashion, it was only White eyes which he concluded was carried on the X chromosome.
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